When someone loves you it's like having a blanket all round your heart.

Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.

Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.

It occurred to me that if Africa needed us, sometimes we needed Africa a great deal more.

Oh God. valentine's Day tomorrow. Why? Why? Why is (the) entire world geared to make people not involved in romance feel stupid when everyone knows romance does not work anyway. Look at (the) royal family. Look at Mum and Dad.

I will not Drink more than fourteen alcohol units a week.